adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a delicious meal
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‘It was a delicious meal,’ Merrill said politely.
a delicious smell (= a pleasant smell of food )
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There were delicious smells emanating from the kitchen.
delicious
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Mango has a delicious flavour.
delicious
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The taste was absolutely delicious.
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a delicious creamy taste
delicious/tasty
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Thanks for dinner – the food was delicious.
food tastes good/delicious etc
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The food at Jan’s house always tastes good.
smell delicious
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That soup smells delicious.
taste good/nice/delicious/great
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The apples weren’t very big but they tasted good.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
absolutely
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I am assured that they are absolutely delicious .
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The result looked like a misshapen, over-sized hamburger which we ate at teatime, and all agreed was absolutely delicious .
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The Mars bar will melt into a gooey mess ... which tastes absolutely delicious .
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This one's just as much of a prezzie for you as it is for him because it smells absolutely delicious !
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All are under 300 calories and all taste absolutely delicious .
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How very kind of you to send that cake round to the rectory. Absolutely delicious .
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It was absolutely delicious and a welcome change from the meat Marcus had been giving me lately.
most
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She simply looks satisfied, as if she had just bitten into the most delicious slab of chocolate she ever tasted.
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Among the most delicious are pea shoots and pea leaves, which are often stir-fried with garlic.
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Mrs Malaprop is one of the most delicious characters ever to gratify the stage.
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Several times during the performance she permitted the most delicious show of her own.
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Potted game is most delicious and delicate with hot thin crisp brown toast for tea or as a first course at lunch.
quite
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Most Cheshire is eaten young, but it is quite delicious when matured.
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It is waxed like an Edam and is quite delicious .
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Delicate, direct and quite delicious .
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They really are quite delicious once you get used to the idea.
so
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Here with us. So delicious , eh?
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Still a few sea bass here, though they're so delicious that they hardly have time to freeze.
■ NOUN
food
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There are also two-day tours involving overnight stays at country hotels as well as delicious food .
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When she went home to tea with them she ate delicious food .
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But the delicious food had been too delicate for their hearty taste.
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Thanks to the delicious food , the relaxed out-of-doors location and Vitor's good humour, enjoyment was not a problem.
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Tasting delicious food is one of them.
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How is a person to keep from eating delicious food if it will later make him sick?
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Cranston loved this place, a veritable den of iniquity but one which sold good ales, fine wine and delicious food .
meal
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Lauriston Farm Restaurant Enjoy a fabulous view over the Forth as well as a delicious meal .
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They had eaten the delicious meal to the sound of the river flowing past while the sun faded behind the skyline.
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Filled with recipes for quick, easy, yet substantial and delicious meals it may soon become your bible.
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The Coach House and Buttery restaurants offer delicious meals and refreshments.
smell
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The delicious smell was twisting his simple mind into knots of ravening hunger.
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Stafford opened the oven, releasing a burst of delicious smells .
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The warm, delicious smell of home baking emanating from the kitchen made Beth realise just how hungry she was.
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Coming home from school on a Friday afternoon, the delicious smell emanating from our kitchen permeated the entire tenement.
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Soon there are delicious smells wafting through the house.
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There was a delicious smell wafting from a pink hyacinth which was growing in a glass on the table at his side.
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But the bread oven conjures up delicious smells of baking and a homely warmth, missing in most modern homes.
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The fallout is the delicious smell of burgers and soggy onions that wafts tantalisingly across a crowd estimated at 42,000 by Jakki.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He waited in delicious anticipation.
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Mmm. This wine is delicious .
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Thank you, that was a delicious meal.
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The apple pie is delicious with vanilla ice cream.
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The chocolate pie was delicious !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Blues is a delicious full fat soft blue cheese with a creamy texture and good bite.
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Dining is a pleasurable necessity and our menu delicious .
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I drank, and never did Ganymede serve the gods with nectar more delicious or refreshing.
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Sliced, sea scallops could be made delicious in five minutes flat.
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The ambulance came and I was filled with delicious brandy but was instantly sick when I got to Imtarfa Hospital.
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When she went home to tea with them she ate delicious food.
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You are simply there to have a good time or pursue a particularly delicious passion, when suddenly-it happens.